18 April 2019
Bahrain's Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning (MWMU) has completed the draft of district cooling regulations with the aim to increase adoption of district cooling in the country.

The Central Planning Office (CPO), a unit within the Ministry has completed the draft and has amended it after final round of stakeholder consultations, the Ministry said in its recently-released annual report for 2018.

The report said the CPO has also secured an agreement to develop a district cooling concession agreement for the Town Centre of Salman City.

"CPO is currently developing the concession bid documentation", it said.

Expansion of district cooling is one of the key initiatives mooted by The National Energy Efficiency Plan as part of Bahrain's COP21 obligations to combat global warming.

(Writing by Sowmya Sundar; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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